I'm a Canadian Shopify store owner located in Winnipeg. Beginning in late February, Shopify started charging adding PST on postage on Canada Post shipments to BC in the checkout page. Anyone else notice this?

Shopify charging pst on Canada Post shipping assumes that I and all other Shopify shop owners are going to create a Canada Post shipping label through Shopify. If I create a shipping label to BC with my own Venture One Canada Post account, I am not being charged the pst.

Why would Shopify be any different than me when purchasing a label. Canada Post would not be treating me any different than Shopify when collecting BC’s pst and I believe that Canada Post would be at the top of BC’s taxation department’s scrutiny.

If Shopify insists on applying pst on Canada Post labels, I would like the tax overrides on shipping fixed. I currently have a shipping pst override of 0% set for BC but it doesn’t work, otherwise I wouldn’t have the pst showing on shipping for orders from BC. I would like the ability to tax override your shipping pst applied to Canada Post shipping to BC and I will purchase my shipping labels through my own Canada Post account.

Makes we wonder, if Canada Post isn’t charging Shopify pst on shipping labels, where is the money going? Is it lining Shopifys pockets? Let fix this improperly charged tax and let also fix the tax overrides that don't work in the admin.

There are a few possibilities as to what's happening here, so we'd like to provide some info first around this and if necessary we can look into your account in particular.

Firstly, for the tax being applied to Canada Post labels; this is coming from Canada Post themselves as outlined here and is not initiated by Shopify.

We can't comment on whether or not you would be paying this tax if purchasing labels directly from them yourself but you can try contacting their support for clarification on that.

Secondly, if you have created a tax override for shipping rates in your Shopify admin this would apply to manual rates (weight- or price-based) that are set in the Shopify admin and not to carrier-calculated rates like those applied by Canada Post.

I will also have a member of our support team send you an email privately now to your account address so we can discuss the specifics of your account and maybe provide some more clarification.